Constitutional Crisis: How Courts Should Anticipate Trump’s Defiance

Trump admires Andrew Jackson for a reason

President Donald Trump meeting with a North Korean envoy in the Oval Office during his first administration;

President Donald Trump recently a judge’s order to release billions of dollars in federal grants. The money had to the states to pay for “Medicaid, school lunches, low-income housing subsidies, and other essential services.” Contempt charges, fines, and even imprisonment could follow for the government lawyers and officials who refuse to follow the judge’s order.

This will not be the last time you read this fact pattern. Some legal scholars are , meaning that Trump is defying the U.S. Constitution’s system of separation of powers, checks and balances, and the rule of law.

The early defiance from Trump’s second administration illustrates how it’s intent on pushing through its agenda at all costs, other branches of government be damned. We are not even one month into his presidency and his administration has issued 65 executive orders to date, already more than the in office (many of which were reversals of the first Trump administration’s orders).

The main difference is that the Biden administration never defied a judge’s order ruling against them…